US4647415A
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Method of producing a filter pad
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1985-01-31
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Granted: 1987-03-03
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Expires: 2005-01-31
Abstract
Abstract Filter pads, which are made inherently stable by binders and by removal of the binders can be converted in packings to be maintained under substantially constant surface pressure between rigid filter brackets, are produced first as molded bodies from a suspension of filter aids in liquid by depositing granular, fibrous, or fiber-containing filter aids or mixtures of those filter aids in a casting mold, there being used high rates of flow while avoiding turbulences, and adding binders to the suspension so that the molded body can be stabilized by activation of the binder while drying. It is possible in this process also to manufacture multi-layered filter pads, it having been surprisingly found in those multi-layered filter pads that the layer assembly is kept intact during the filtration even in the filter packing that no longer contains binders. The filter pads or the filter packings produced therefrom according to the invention can, when used, and after reflushing and regeneration operations, finally be utilized, after being replaced, as filter aids in the deposit filtration process.
Inventors
- 👤 Helmut Schafft
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 11:09
CPC Classifications
B; B01; B01D; B01D25/00; B01D25/001; B01D25/002; B01D25/22; B01D25/26; B01D29/00; B01D29/11; B01D29/111; B01D29/31; B01D29/50; B01D29/52; B01D29/54; B01D29/62; B01D29/66; B01D29/96; B01D2101/00; B01D2101/005; B01D2101/02; B01D2201/00; B01D2201/08; B01D2201/085; B01D2201/18; B01D2201/182; B01D2201/34; B01D2201/40; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S264/00; Y10S264/48
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
138 words
A process for producing a filter pad for filtration or physiochemical treatment of fluids, comprising the steps of: (a) preparing several suspensions from fibrous or fiber-containing filter aids and a water soluble binder with liquid; (b) forming in a casting mold a molded body from each of said suspensions sequentially by forming said molded body by periodically consecutive deposits of layers that differ from each other by their filtration properties; (c) the molded body casting operation being at predetermined rates of flow on the order of at least 5 hl/m 2 h while avoiding turbulences; (d) stabilizing said molded body by activation of said binder while drying; (e) introducing the thus formed filter pad in a filter housing and holding it together under substantially constant surface pressure between rigid, preferably plate-like, filter brackets; and (f) removing the binder.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
138 words
A process for producing a filter pad for filtration or physiochemical treatment of fluids, comprising the steps of: (a) preparing several suspensions from fibrous or fiber-containing filter aids and a water soluble binder with liquid; (b) forming in a casting mold a molded body from each of said suspensions sequentially by forming said molded body by periodically consecutive deposits of layers that differ from each other by their filtration properties; (c) the molded body casting operation being at predetermined rates of flow on the order of at least 5 hl/m 2 h while avoiding turbulences; (d) stabilizing said molded body by activation of said binder while drying; (e) introducing the thus formed filter pad in a filter housing and holding it together under substantially constant surface pressure between rigid, preferably plate-like, filter brackets; and (f) removing the binder.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising using as a binder a material selected from the group consisting of a glucose, a dextrine, a gelatine, a salt, a silicate or mixtures of said materials.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
35 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising effecting the formation of said molded body from said suspensions in the flowable casting mold and effecting in said casting mold the stabilization to form a molded body.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said suspensions are different in grain size.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
14 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said suspensions are different in filtration aid.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
A process according to claim 1, wherein said suspensions are different in composition.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
32 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising forming said molded body by periodically consecutive deposits of layers said layers differing from each other in filtration properties, while using different rates of flow.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
26 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising effecting the deposit of said layers at rates of flow of up to 500 hl/m 2 h and more.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
19 words
A process according to claim 8, wherein said rates of flow are between 100 and 500 hl/m 2 h.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising depositing in said casting mold said layers for said molded body in a direction opposite to the provided direction of filtration of said filter packing.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
21 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising drying said deposited molded body in said casting mold by blowing a gaseous medium.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
12 words
A process according to claim 11, wherein said gaseous medium is heated.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
25 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising drying and stabilizing said molded body in a drier furnace at temperatures of up to about 140° C.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
54 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising stabilizing said deposited molded body in said casting mold, by means of blowing a gaseous medium, sufficiently to permit removal of said body from said casting mold, introducing the molded body into a drier furnace, and drying and further stabilizing said molded body in said drier furnace.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
42 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising forming on said stabilized and dried filter pad, on the side of the filtrate outlet, a layer that is pervious to liquid and gas but impervious to filter aid particles and resistant to the filtrate.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
38 words
A process according to claim 15, wherein a layer that is pervious to liquid and gas but impervious to filter aid particles and resistant to the filtrate is also formed on the inlet side of the unfiltered substance.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
22 words
A process according to claim 1, comprising forming on said inherently stable filter pad, at least on its edges, a protection border.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
17 words
A process according to claim 17, comprising firmly wrapping the whole filter pad with a porous casing.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
12 words
A process according to claim 18, wherein said porous casing comprises tissue.
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